Robert Frost

Part A: Biographical Information.

• A photo

Dates of birth and death
March 26, 1874 -January 29, 1963
Geographic region of influence:
New England
Family information:
Parents:Isabelle Moodie and William Prescott Frost Jr
Spouse: Elinor Miriam White
Children:Elliott (b.1896-1900),Carol (1902-1940),Lesley (b.1899), Irma(b.1903) Marjorie (b.1905-1934)
Elinor Bettina (1907-1907).
Applicable education / careers:
teacher, cobbler, and editor of the Lawrence Sentinel.
enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard, though he never earned a formal degree.

Authors/poets of influence:

• Edward Thomas
• Rupert Brooke
• Robert Graves

Unique characteristics of work:

• wrote about the rural landscape, vernacular, culture and people of New England in his traditional verse style
• Nature
• He wrote rhymed verse and blank verse, never free verse.

Influence/focus of work:
Nature
New England
Most Famous works:

• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• The Road Not Taken
• Fire and Ice
• Nothing Gold Can Stay
• Birches
• After Apple-Picking
• The Death of the Hired Man
• Home Burial
• Mending Wall
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Other information:

• Frost’s son Carol, killed himself .
• loved the same woman for over 40 years

Part B: Two poems.
The Road Not Taken


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that, the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.
Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that fordestruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.



Part C: Figurative Language


Part D: Meaning